Board of Directors

Overview

Tom May served as the president of HCA’s Far West Division from 1995 until 2007 when he retired. Located in Henderson, Nevada, his responsibilities included HCA’s healthcare operations in California, Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington State and Alaska. This included more than 17 hospitals, a number of ambulatory surgery and imaging centers and a division office with corporate support staff.

Prior to joining HCA, Mr. May was the president and CEO of the Institutional Services Division of UniHealth from 1989 to 1995; vice president of operations of Paracelsus Healthcare from 1985 to 1989; and vice president, Hospitals and Health Service Company Operations at Greatwest Hospital, Inc., from 1984 to 1985. Before that, he held management positions with National Medical Enterprises from 1979 to 1984, including regional vice president in New Orleans, Louisiana and Long Beach, California. He served as CEO and CFO of Indio Community/Valley Memorial Hospitals from 1976 to 1979 and held various financial positions in real estate development and mortgage banking dating back to 1971.

Mr. May is a life fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives. He is past chair of the California Hospital Association and past chair of the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California. Since his retirement from HCA, he has joined the Board of Directors of Merit Health Systems in Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. May serves as a member of the Audit Committee. He also serves the parent company, Willis Stein Partners, a Chicago-based private equity firm, as its executive advisor of healthcare services. Mr. May was recently asked to serve on the Board of Volunteers in Medicine of Southern Nevada, a clinic serving financially disadvantaged residents in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was a member of the Healthy Nevada Task Force, a Governor-appointed Commission. He was a member of the Nevada Standing Committee on Judicial Ethics and Election Practices. Mr. May has served on the National Advisory Board for the Western Governors University. He has participated in numerous other community and charitable boards in his career.

Mr. May received a bachelor’s degree in social science from California State University, Northridge in 1970 and an M.B.A. from the University of California, Irvine in 1976. He was honorably discharged from the United States Navy in 1971. Mr. May and his wife, Diane, reside in Henderson, Nevada. They have two grown children and four grandchildren.

Staff person

Jane E. Hirsch, R.N., M.S.
Secretary

September 23, 2010

Clinical Professor Emeritus
Department of Community Health Systems
UCSF School of Nursing

Jane Hirsch, R.N., M.S., is clinical professor emeritus in the UCSF School of Nursing, and is the former director of the Nursing & Health Systems Leadership Graduate Program in the School. Her responsibilities included curriculum design, teaching, student advising/mentoring, as well as participation in leadership aspects of the Department of Community Health Systems in the School.

Prior to her role on the UCSF School of Nursing faculty, Ms. Hirsch served as the chief nursing officer for nine years at the UCSF Medical Center. In this role, Ms. Hirsch was responsible for ensuring patient care quality and safety, nursing recruitment and retention, staff satisfaction, collaboration with other healthcare professionals, participation in strategic planning for the Medical Center, and representing patient care issues to Medical Center executive leadership.

She is a graduate of the Sinclair School of Nursing at the University of Missouri-Columbia, and received her graduate degree from the UCSF School of Nursing. She is an editor of Clinical Nursing, now in its 5th edition, and has consulted and presented nationally and internationally on issues related to nursing leadership, patient safety, clinical ethics, and quality of care.

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Craig T. Beam
Member

March 8, 2012

Managing Director of Healthcare Services
CBRE

Craig Beam is the managing director of healthcare services for CBRE, responsible for delivery of all real estate services to all of the firm’s healthcare clients in the western United States. Prior to that, Mr. Beam was the senior vice president of MDS, consulting with mostly healthcare non-profits on a variety of business issues. Mr. Beam served as the interim CEO and treasurer for the World Heart Federation in Switzerland and was also a partner with Hammes Company, one of the nation’s largest healthcare consulting firms.

Mr. Beam has held a number of senior-level positions with nonprofits and other professional and policy organizations, including the National Institute of Health, the American Heart Association in Dallas, AllHealth, the California Hospital Association’s OSHPD Task Force, the State of California’s Task Force on Cardiovascular Disease and Pacificare Health Systems.

He has also received many civic and professional awards, including the Gold Heart Award from the American Heart Association in 2007, the California Hospital Association’s Trustee of the Year award in 1999, an endowed fellowship from the National Health Foundation in 1998 and the California Heart Association’s Volunteer of the Year award in 1995.

Mr. Beam earned his bachelor’s degree in finance from California State University, Fullerton.

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Pilar De La Cruz-Reyes, M.S.N., R.N.
Member

October 31, 2012

Director
School of Nursing
United States University | San Diego

Pilar De La Cruz-Reyes, MSN, RN, serves as director of United States University’s School of Nursing, San Diego campus, located in Chula Vista, California. Prior to arriving at United States University in 2011, Ms. De La Cruz-Reyes served as the diversity director at the California Institute for Nursing and Health Care and also as the executive director of the San Joaquin Valley Nursing Education Consortium, part of the Hospital Council of Northern and Central California. She is a former member of the nursing faculty at both San Joaquin Valley College and Fresno Pacific University and served as chief nurse executive at the Fresno Heart Hospital. She also held several clinical and administrative positions at Fresno Community Hospital during her 37-year tenure.

Ms. De La Cruz-Reyes has held a number of senior-level positions with other non-profits and professional organizations, including the National Hispanic Nurses Association (San Joaquin Chapter), the Central San Joaquin Valley Nursing Leadership Council, the Association of California Nurse Leaders, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the National Subacute Care Association, the Central California School of Pharmacy, the State Center Community College Foundation and the American Heart Association (Central Valley Chapter).

Ms. De La Cruz-Reyes earned her diploma from the O’Connor Hospital School of Nursing in San Jose, California. She also earned both her bachelor’s degree in nursing and master’s degree in nursing education from California State University, Dominguez Hills.

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